Reasons to be cheerful.....

[alan refail]

.....in no particular order.

Been digging my blight-ridden potatoes
Indoor tomatoes ripening nicely
Farmers out shit-spraying
Courgettes recovering rapidly from wet weather
Butterflies out and about again - saw first red admiral
Jerusalem artichokes flat after the recent winds
Second brood of sparrows out feeding and using polytunnel floor as a giant dustbath
Indoor French climbing beans cropping like there's no tomorrow
Cucumbers going mad
Thuggish Autumn raspberries I was too lazy to dig out are producing a crop to fit between the summer raspberries and the controlled Autumn ones
Still too wet to cut overlong grass in field
Peppers and chilis in polytunnel growing fast

Oh... and best of all, it has been sunny and warm for a day and a half now.

I reckon the good outweighs the bad

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Alan, theres always something to be cheerful about, theres just the odd day it takes a bit more finding.

I'm sure the rain will soon be back with you.

[Clive.]

Cheerful..wot you mean cheerful








7.4 inches rain in June....already 4.75 for July...

...but this evening it is sunny sunshine. ..and it is our evening garden walk with the gardeners at 7pm..historically it always rains for this...so this year we moved it a week later...to get a clear evening..

Perhaps I may have spoken too soon..??!!

..anyway must dash for wash and brush up...have been grapling with Ivy today in a hedge bottom..

Clive.

[Cider Boys]

I hope that it remains sunny for you all, you deserve it.

Barney

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Clive if it's the Ivy i used to know, you will be back in the hedge bottom again tomorrow.

Dear Barney i'm sure i don't deserve it.

[Colin_M]

.....in no particular order.

Cheers for this Alain. Not to mention Gloucester getting to the finals of the 20:20 cricket (apologies to anyone from Worcester, who may still have a garden that looks like Clive's photos )

Just one thing on your list that didn't immediately click:
"Farmers out shit-spraying"


Colin

[jopsy]

isnt that the title of a song?
im cheerful-i break up from school one wk today and ive just done parents evening! hurrah hurrah!
dh is cheerful cos ive lost my voice

[lizzie]

The sun came out today. It was fabulous. I'd forgotten what it looked like

Clive, I hope Ivy didn't mind being grappled with. Just make sure there's nothing nasty at the bottom of the hedge. Blisters can be a right bugger in the wrong places

[jopsy]

reasons to be cheerful by ian dury!
i knew it!
i didnt see the weather today-cooped up in class

[Clive.]

That's better

Clive.

[alan refail]

What a difference 11 days make

[Clive.]

..and 2 more photos...a year and 2 days apart...

20th July 2006.

22nd July 2007.


Clive.

[oldherbaceous]

Just come back from the allotment, and i really don't know if i can take much more of this sunshine.
And whats more, i have just seen weather week on Countryfile, and they are on about a warm and sunny week.

[beefy]

Reasons to be cheerfull - heres 16


http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i136/ ... 3fabd6.pbw


Took the family out yesterday to the Seaforde Butterfly House in Co. Down in N.Ireland.

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Beefy, we have a butterfly park fairly close to where i live, and i must say they are well worth a visit.